. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 68 THE COTTAGE OAEDENER. April 28. The above represents a Poiiltnj Badrt or Pen, in- vented by Jonatban Gray, Esq., of Bathwick, near Batb, and intended by tliat gentleman as a model wbicli might be adopted vpere the double purpose desirable to be combined of a basket in which the birds might travel to a show, and a pen in which they might be there exhibited. No. 1 represents it closed as when fowls are within it. No. 2 is the same open, but the three other sides fold down, so that if the birds are sold it may be shut up in a fiat form, occupying l
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 68 THE COTTAGE OAEDENER. April 28. The above represents a Poiiltnj Badrt or Pen, in- vented by Jonatban Gray, Esq., of Bathwick, near Batb, and intended by tliat gentleman as a model wbicli might be adopted vpere the double purpose desirable to be combined of a basket in which the birds might travel to a show, and a pen in which they might be there exhibited. No. 1 represents it closed as when fowls are within it. No. 2 is the same open, but the three other sides fold down, so that if the birds are sold it may be shut up in a fiat form, occupying little space, convenient for conveyance liome, and for storing when it there arrives. No. ;) ia one of the I'ods for passing through tlie wicker staples tliat lit into the square holes shown in No. '2, and thus unite the sides. No. 4 represents one of the wooden bolts, b, which similarly fasten down the top and front to the sides and bottom, by passing through wicker staples, c, attached to them, a, a, are the wicker eyes, which keep the bolt in its place. This basket is 3 feet long, 'ih feet wide, and 2^ feet deep, and when we say that it is made by the inmates of the Asj'lum for the Blind, at Clifton, we give a suificient indication who ought to be em- ployed by any one desiring to possess one. COVENT GARDEN. We promised, a long time ago, we are ashamed to say how long, to give an account of how houquets are made up in Oovent Garden ; but so many other matters press- ing on us at once, we have never been able to give attention to the subject till now. All who have visited, or are acquainted with, London, must have the exceeding beauty and taste with whicli these houquets are arranged, and the art which must be employed in forming them; and it has been an object of curiosity to many liow such an arrangement is obtained Until we set all our facidties of observation to work, we were equally as ignorant of the subject as any of our readers at the Land's End could be, but
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